Scholarly Presentations

  • "Excess and Sublimation: Tantra and Karma," The Ancient Crossroads: Greece and India, Conference sponsored by the Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture, and the Arts, Loyola Marymount University, March 14, 2003.

  • "Jainism, Nonviolence, and Ecology," Gujarat Vidyapeeth (Deemed University established by Mahatma Gandhi), December 11, 2002.

  • "The Subtle Elements and Environmentalism in Hinduism," Department of Philosophy and Psychology, Gujarat University, December 11, 2002.

  • "Avoidance of War"  Anekanta Conference, Railway Staff College, Barodoa, India, December 8, 2002.

  • "The Story of the World Within the Rock: Elements, Senses, and World Creation in the Yogavasistha."  American Academy of Religion, Toronto, November 25, 2002.

  • “Devotion to God in Mirabai, Jainism, and Yoga.”  Mirabai: Hindu Saint for a Global World, UCLA, October 4-5, 2002.

  • “Yoga Then and Now.”  The Foundation for Indic Philosophy and Culture.  Pomona College, Claremont, June 23, 2002.
  • “Buddhism and Globalization.”  Canadian Asian Studies Association.  University of Toronto, May 27, 2002.
  • “Religion and Human Dignity: Prospects for the Future.”  Panel.  Violence and Human Dignity: Perspectives from the World Religions.  The Global Ethics and Religion Forum. California Lutheran University, April 30, 2002.
  • “Jainism, Ahimsa and Gandhi.”   Can War Be Just?  Seminar, Chapman University.  April 25, 2002.
  • “Hinduism and Work.”  Occidental College.  Lilly Grant Program for Vocation and Religion. April 23, 2002.
  • “Jainism, Bioethics, and the End of Life.”  Chander Mohan Jain Memorial Lecture, The University of Western Ontario, March 8, 2002 and the Roop Lal Jain Lecture, The University of Toronto, March 7, 2002.
  • “Religion and Ecology in India.”  Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor, Canada, March 6, 2002.
  • “Religious Dissonance and Reconciliation: The Haribhadra Story.”  The Lessons of Ahimsa and Anekanta for Contemporary Life.  Conference at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.  January 19-20, 2002.
  • “Hinduism, Jainism, and Ecology.”  American Academy of Religion.  Denver, Colorado. November 17-20, 2001.
  • “Indian Religions and Shin Buddhism: Nonviolence, the Issue of Self, and Religious Practice.” Response to paper by Professor Tomoyuki Uno.  Conference on Pure Land (Jodo Shinshu) Buddhism.  Sponsored by Chikushi University and LMU.  LMU, September 10, 2001.  
  • “Religions of India and Ecology.”  Religion and Ecology: Toward a More Creative Interaction. Brueggeman Center for Interreligious Dialogue.  Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. September 5-6, 2001.
  • “Jainism and Ecology” and “Haribhadra and Jain Yoga.”  11th Biennial JAINA Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 5-8, 2001.
  • “Arjuna’s Argument: Family Secrets Unveiled.”  International Conference on the Mahabharata.  Concordia University,  Montreal.  May 18-20, 2001.
  • “India and Ecology.”  State University of New York at Stony Brook.  April 25, 2001.
  • “Violence and Nonviolence in the Mahabharata.”  Conference on War and Peace in the World Religions.  California Lutheran University.  April 23, 2001.
  • “Reconciling Yogas: Haribhadra as Harbinger of Interreligious Dialogue.”  Conference on Mahavira and Ahimsa in the 21st Century.  Bhogilal Leherchand Institute of Indology.  India International Centre, New Delhi.  April 10-12, 2001.
  • “The Great Elements and the Continuity of Life: Ecology in Hinduism and Jainism.”  Kutten Lecture.  Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, March 27, 2001.
  • “Moving to the Luminous: Subtilization in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra.”  American Academy of Religion, Nashville, Tennessee, November 18-21, 2000.
  • “Images of the Feminine in Classical Yoga: Examples from Patanjali and Haribhadra.”  The Yoga Tradition: Interreligious Perspectives.  UCLA, October 28, 2000.
  • “Teaching Asian Religions: Integrating the Field Trip.”  West Coast Association for Asian Studies, Long Beach California, October 5, 2000.
  • “Nonpossession and Simplicity: Ethics and Lifestyle.”  Buddhism, Christianity and Global Healing: Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Conference, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, August 5-12, 2000.
  • “Islam and the Sikh Response” and “Liberation from, through, and in the Body: Jainism, Yoga, and Tantra.”  Religions, Philosophies, and Culture in India: Conflicts and Negotiations.  National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute.  University of Hawaii, June 19, 20, 2000.  
  • “Hinduism and Comparative Theology.”  Shandong University, Jinan, China, April 4, 2000.
  • “Pushing the Boundaries of Personal Ethics: The Practice of Jaina Vows.”  International Conference on Ethics and Religion for a Global Twenty-First Century.  Chapman  University, March 24, 2000.
  • “Nonviolence and the Yoga Path.”  YogaVision 2000.  Arizona State University, March 11, 2000.
  • “Les Religions et l’Ecologie: Entre Deux Mondes.”  Institut des Sciences, Technologies, et l’Environment, University of Fianarantsoa, Madagascar,  December 13, 1999.
  • “The Emerging Alliance between Religion and Ecology: Jainism.”  Parliament of the World’s Religions.  Cape Town, South Africa, December 1-8, 1999.
  • “How Haribhadra Stakes the Middle Ground between Eternalism and Nihilism.”  American Academy of Religion, Boston.  November 20-23, 1999.
  • “Jainism and Ecology.”  Working conference for preparation of Daedalus issue on World Religions and Ecology.  American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  October 29-30, 1999.
  • “Inherent Value without Nostalgia: Animals and the Jaina Tradition.”  Conference on Religion  and Animals.  Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University.  May 20-23, 1999.
  • "Interiority and the Elements in the Yogavàsiéæha."  International Conference on the  Yogavàsiéæha,  Loyola Marymount University, April 9-11, 1999.
  • "The Ethics and Psychology of the Yogavàsiéæha."  American Philosophical Association,  Berkeley, California, April 1, 1999. 
  • "Principles of Yoga."  Ayurveda and Yoga: Medicine in Ancient India.  Sponsored by the  Navin and Pratima Chair, Department of History, UCLA and the University of  Southern California School of Medicine at the UCLA Faculty Center, March 13,  1999.
  • "Imitation of Animals in Yoga Traditions: Taming the Sacred Wild."  Borders and Bridges:  A Colloquium Exploring the Relationships Between Humans and Animals.  The  Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara.  February 26-27, 1999.  
  • "Ethics and the Cultivated Life in Yoga Tradition."  Second International Conference on Yoga  in Daily Life.  Prashanti Kuteeram, Bangalore, India.  January 10, 1999. 
  • "Deep Ecology and Hinduism."  International Conference of East-West Philosophers.  Utkal  University, Bhubaneshwar, India.  January 4, 1999.
  • "Living in the Light: Liberation and Social Responsibility in the Yogav_siha." Department of Philosophy Infinity Project Lecture, University of Hawaii, November 6, 1998.
  • "The Use of the Feminine Gender in the Description of Yoga Practices." Workshop on Yoga Traditions sponsored by the Dharam Hinduja Center for Indic Research, Cambridge University, England, October 3, 1998.
  • "Hinduism, Jainism and Ecology." Religion, Ethics, and the Environment: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts. September 17-20, 1998. Discussion resource for Religion and Ecology: Discovering the Common Ground. United Nations, October 20, 1998; American Museum of Natural History, October 21, 1998. 
  • "Sustainability: Examples from Madagascar and Kerala." Sustainability Workshop for K-12 Teachers, Los Angeles Center for International Studies, Loyola Marymount University, August 13, 1998.
  • "Teaching Meditation in an Academic Setting." Consultation on Teaching about World Religions in Theological School and Theology Departments. The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Wabash College, August 8-12, 1998.
  • "The New Story, Functional Cosmology, and Jainism." Conference on Jainism and Ecology. Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions. July 10-12, 1998.
  • "Purity and Reality in Haribhadra's Yoga Texts." Conference on Jainism and Early Buddhism in the Indian Cultural Context." University of Lund, Sweden. June 4-7, 1998.
  • "Ecology in South Asia," Conference on Ecological Concerns: Recent Research by Loyola Marymount University Faculty, May 30, 1998.
  • "The Changing Face of Hinduism in Los Angeles: A Response." Religion in Los Angeles: Innovations and Multicultural Interaction Conference, The Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA, May 7-8, 1998.
  • "Animals in Asian Religious Traditions." American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine. Pheasant Run Resort, St. Charles, Illinois. May 3-6, 1998. 
  • "Worshipping the Goddess: A Response." Gender, Love, and Sexuality Conference.
  • Chapman University, Orange, California. April 2-4, 1998.
  • "Environment in Contemporary India." South Asia Seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 23, 1998.
  • "Jainism, Ecology, and the New Cosmology," Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, University of Hawaii, January 4-6, 1998.
  • "Hinduism and Ecology: Policy Implications." Panel Discussion. Hinduism and Ecology Conference, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, October 2-5, 1997
  • "Buddhism and Animals." The Twelfth Annual Compassionate Living Festival. Raleigh, North Carolina, September 26-28, 1997.
  • "Integrating Knowledge, Action, and Devotion." The Fifth National Gita Conference. University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, September 13, 1997.
  • "Life Force in Jainism and Yoga." The Meaning of Life in the World Religions. Chapman University. April 3-5, 1997.
  • "Purity and Diversity in the Yoga Traditions of Patanjali and Haribhadra." International Seminar on the Yoga Tradition, Southern California Seminar on South Asia. Loyola Marymount University, March 15, 1997.
  • "Environmentalism in Contemporary India." Colloquium on Culture in South Asia. University of California, Los Angeles, February 18, 1997.
  • "The Lost Yoga of Bhadanta Bhaskara in Haribhadra's Yogadisamuccaya" and "The Contemporary Study of Jainism in Historical Perspective" (plenary presentation) at the Eighth International Congress of Vedanta, October 31 through November 3, 1996, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
  • "Buddhist Cosmology and the New Story of Thomas Berry," Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Conference on Socially Engaged Buddhism and Christianity, DePaul University, Chicago, July 30, 1996.
  • "Questions for The Divine Matrix: Teleology, Ethics, and Spirituality," Comparative Theology Section, Catholic Theological Society of America, San Diego, June 7, 1996 (paper delivered by Professor Lance Nelson).
  • "Repentance, Repulsion, and Recompense: Contributions of Three Early Buddhist Women," Dialogue on the Historical Jesus and Buddha, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion, University of California, Los Angeles, May 19, 1996.
  • "Animals in the Early Sramanic Tradition," Buddhism and Ecology Consultation, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, May 2-5, 1996.
  • "Buddhism and Ecology: Meditation on Nature and Emptiness." Conference on Environmental Destruction, Pollution and Health Issues: A Global Challenge. California State University, Long Beach, April 22, 1996.
  • "Traditionalist and Renouncer Models: Toward an Indigenous Indian Environmentalism," Religion and the Environment in South Asia Conference, University of San Diego, March 30, 1996.
  • "Purity, Vows, and Boundaries in Jaina Traditions," American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 20, 1995.
  • "Relevance of Jain Philosophy in Contemporary Western Society," keynote panel presentation, 8th Biennial JAINA Convention, July 3, 1995, Chicago.
  • "Centrality of the Real in Haribhadra's Yoga Texts" at Approaches to Jaina Studies: Philosophy, Logic, Rituals and Symbols, University of Toronto, April 1, 1995.
  • "Nonviolence in Jainism and Its Impact on Asian Civilization," Jain Memorial Lecture, Huron College, Western Ontario University, March 30, 1995 .
  • "Nonviolence as Philosophy and Strategy for East and West" and "Nonviolence - Reverence for Life: Asian Perspectives," University of Windsor, March 29, 1995.
  • "Jainism and Yoga" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1994.
  • "Can Creation Ex Nihilo Be Used to Dialogue with the Religions of India?" at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Chicago, Illinois, November 21, 1994.
  • "Inventing Tradition: Jainism in America" at the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy panel of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific) meeting, Los Angeles, April 1, 1994.
  • "Haribhadra's Analysis of Patañjala and Kula Yoga in the Yogadisamuccaya" at the IXth World Sanskrit Conference, Sydney, Australia, January 13, 1994.
  • "Jaina Perspectives on Yoga" at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Washington, D.C., November 21, 1993.
  • "Haribhadra's Jaina Analysis of Hinduism and Buddhism" for the Southern California Seminar on South Asia, UCLA, October 15, 1993.
  • "Jains and Yogis in the Eighth Century: Haribhadra's Analysis of Brahmanical Yoga Systems in the Yogadisamuccaya" at "Jains in Indian History and Culture" conference at Amherst College, June 24-27, 1993.
  • "The Body in South Asian Religious Thought" at the annual meeting of the College Theology Society, Saint Mary's College, Moraga, California, June 4, 1993.
  • "Multiculturalism and the University: The Multidimensional Challenge" (with Maulana Karenga) and "Indigenous Theories of Interreligious Dialogue in India" at the Second International East Meets West Conference in Cross-Cultural Communication, Comparative Philosophy, and Comparative Religion, Long Beach, April 8-10, 1993.
  • Co-Presenter, "Teaching the Multicultural Course: Issues and Answers," English and Theology Joint Pedagogy Colloquium, March 18, 1993, LMU.
  • "Asian Religions in Los Angeles," FocusLA, March 16, 1993, LMU.
  • "Two Traditional Indian Models for Interreligious Dialogue: Monistic Accommodationism and Flexible Fundamentalism" at Council on the World Religions Conference, New Delhi, India, February 1-7, 1993.
  • "Spirituality and the Earth: Handsome Lake and the Quakers," conference on Christian Faith and Native American Spirituality, Westwood United Methodist Church, October 10, 1992.
  • Co-presenter, "Multiculturalism and World Religions," Theology Department Colloquium, Loyola Marymount University, October 8, 1992.
  • "The Buddhist Challenge to Confucian and Christian Anthropocentrism: Animals, Rebirth, and Vegetarianism" at the Fourth International Buddhist-Christian Dialogue Conference on Buddhism, Christianity, Global Healing, Boston University, July 30 - August 3, 1992.
  • "Swami Vivekananda's R_ja Yoga and the S_khya System: A Case of Ved_ntic Inclusivism?" at the Fourth International Congress of Ved_nta, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, April 2-5, 1992.
  • "Sequences of S_tras: Reading Patañjali without Vy_sa," The American Academy of Religion Western Region Annual Meeting, University of Southern California, March 23, 1991.
  • "Contemporary Jaina Responses to the Ecological Crisis," College Theology Society Annual Meeting, Loyola University, New Orleans, June 1, l990.
  • "The Fast Unto Death in Jaina Tradition," Southern California Seminar on South Asia, Pomona College, February 17, 1990.
  • "Inception and Development of Nonviolence," Department of Jainology, University of Madras, December 21, 1989.
  • "J_van Mukti in S_mkhya and Yoga," American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Anaheim, November 20, l989.
  • "Flexible Fundamentalism: Toward a Jaina Approach to Interreligious Dialogue," College Theology Society Annual Meeting, Nazareth College, Rochester, New York, June, 1989.
  • "Living Nonviolence: Origins and Implications of Ahimsa," Margaret Demerest Lecture, Casper College, Wyoming, January, 1989.
  • "The Wheel of Karma in Historical Perspective," Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Association of Asian Studies, California State University, Northridge, June, 1988.
  • "Buddhist Selflessness as a Model for Religious Life," College Theology Society Workshop, LMU, May, 1988.
  • "Teaching World Religions in a Pluralistic Classroom," Theology Department Colloquium, LMU, April, 1988.
  • "Poets or Seers: The Legacy of Radhakrishnan and the Discipline of Hindu Studies," Radhakrishnan Centennial Conference, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, April, 1988.
  • "Origins of Nonviolence in India," Symposia on Nonviolence, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, October, 1988.
  • "Violence and Nonviolence: A War to End All Wars?" at Mahabharata: Performance and Interpretation Conference, UCLA, October, 1987.
  • "Buddhism and the Issue of Life: Microphase and Macrophase," Buddhist-Christian Conference, Toward the Human Future, Berkeley, California, August, 1987.
  • "Ecological Nonviolence and the Classical Traditions of India," College Theology Society Annual Meeting, Loyola College, Baltimore, June 1987.
  • "Tolerance as a Religious Overview: Evidence from Indian Text and Tradition," Faculty Seminar, LMU, February, 1987.
  • "The Bhagavad Gita: Song of Plurality," College Theology Society Annual Meeting, Xavier University, Cincinnati, June, 1986.
  • "The Unseen Seer and the Field: Consciousness in S_mkhya," American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Anaheim, November, 1985 .
  • "Hindu Hermeneutics," Center for Religious Studies Faculty Seminar, State University of New York at Stony Brook, February, 1985.
  • "The Syncretic Asceticism of the Yoga S_tra with Special Reference to the Discipline of Nonviolence," American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, December, 1984.
  • "Classical Indian Religious Traditions and the Question of the Use of Animals in Science," International Conference on Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in Science, London, July, 1984.
  • "Ahis_ in Early Hinduism," IASWR Conference on Nonviolence in World Religious Traditions, SUNY Stony Brook, May, 1984.
  • "Abhidharma as Paradigm for Practice," Buddhist-Christian Conference on Paradigm Shifts, Honolulu, January, 1984.
  • "Ahis_ in Early Indian Philosophy," Mid-Atlantic Region, American Academy of Religion, Montclair State College, New Jersey, March, 1983 and at the Riverdale Center of Religious Research, October, 1983.
  • "The Paurua Paradigm of the Yogav_siha," Columbia University Seminar on Oriental Thought and Religion, April, 1982.
  • "The Yoga of Action in the Yogav_siha," Mid-Atlantic Region, American Academy of Religion, Wagner College, March, 1982.
  • "Yoga Spirituality," Advaita Ashram, Kalady, Kerala, India, November, 1981.
  • "Yoga-S_khya Philosophy," World Conference on Religions and Man, Cochin, Kerala, India, November, 1981.
  • "Teaching Oriental Texts to Undergraduates: Yoga S_tra I & II," Annual Meeting of the Society for Values in Higher Education, Vassar College, July, 1981.
  • "Citta-vrtti and Reality in the Yoga S_tra," IASWR Conference on Samkhya-Yoga, SUNY Stony Brook, April, 1981.
  • "The Yoga of the Yogav siha," Center for Religious Studies Faculty Seminar, SUNY Stony Brook, October, 1980.
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